Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on the Body (European Journal of Women's Studies Readers series)

Autor: Davis, Kathy.
Rok: 1997
ISBN: 9780761953623
OKCZID: 110109282

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This book focuses on the significance of the body in contemporary feminist scholarship. Whether the body is treated as biological bedrock or subversive metaphor, it is implicated in the cultural and historical construction of sexual difference as well as asymmetical power relations. The contributors to this volume examine the role of the body as socially shaped and historically colonized territory, and as the focus of individual women's struggles for autonomy and self-determination. They also analyze its centrality to the feminist critique of male-stream science as dualistic, distanced and decontextualized. While the body has become a `hot item' in both contemporary social theory and research, this renewed interest has received a mixed reaction from feminists. The body may be back, the `new' body theory often proves to be just as disembodied as it ever was. The body revival seems to be less an attempt to re-embody masculinist science than just another expression of the same condition which evoked the feminist critique in the first place: a flight from femininity and everything that is associated with it in western culture. Drawing upon insights from contemporary feminist theories of gender and power, this book offers a timely critical appraisal of the recent `body revival'. Embodied Practices not only sets the agenda for rsearch about the body, but for an embodied perspective on the body as well. It will be a valuable and thought-provoking resource for students fo women's studies, social theory, cultural studies and medical sociology.

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